New topic: what are you unqualified to talk about)? Microbiology, French history, the mating cycle of seals 🤷🏾‍♀️

Simple things that bring me joy, new educator themed earrings ✨️

This is joy 😊

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"...radical joy isn't just a pursuit; it's an act of defiance. a reclamation of our right to thrive in the face of systems that seek to diminish us." ~ Malebo Sephodi 🌸🌸🌸

"All which I feel I must write has become obsessive. So many truths seem to be rushing at me as the result of things felt and seen and lived through. Oh, what I think I must tell this world.” ~ Lorraine Hansberry 🌸🌸🌸

Fantastic 🤣

Chefs kiss 💋

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In 1961, jazz pianist Hazel Scott wrote “My Paris is not the city of champagne and caviar. My Paris is a pot full of red beans and rice and an apartment full of old friends and glasses tinkling.” Chef Mashama Bailey explores the cuisine of transience & movements. Free: archive.ph/2025.09.17-1... 🍽

After the week little sis had, I decided to get us each this lovely necklace. 🥰 12 is a rough age, I wanted her to have a physical reminder that I'm on her side 💛

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Being the oldest of five daughters on one hand, and the only child on the other is a wild juxtaposition 🤦🏾‍♀️ Especially as now my youngest sibling (12) lives with me. I don't know what I'm doing, but I do know that i will protect this little Black girl with everything that's in me.

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"'The number of $500 million is completely arbitrary and it will solve nothing,' [Claudine] Gay said. 'There is no justification.'" SAY IT AGAIN DEAN GAY. #Harvard www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Had a chance to speak with little sisters teacher this morning. We addressed the situation and I appreciated that she was receptive to my concerns. I know what's 12 year old girls are like, I was one many moons ago. But I made it very clear that I will not tolerate that type of response/1

"This isn't the America I know" Black people

Update: The teacher is giving me a call tomorrow! Let's go!

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Today in my social of sports class we discussed how sports includes/excludes on thr basis of sex and gender. We watched the Dusney short: The Little Prince(ss) and Dr. Cheryl Cooky's Ted Talk--The Female Athlete: Missing in Action. Such a productive conversation. Sometimes, I am overwhelmed /1

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Spoke with the principal today about my little sis being called "fast" in science class. Setting up a meeting with the teacher. The principal didn't seem surprised 😕 I remember being 12 and having a teacher who treated me poorly because I was a Black girl. I can't protect my sister from everything

Getting rid of memorials to the Confederacy is erasing history and must be reversed by rememorializing the Confederacy, getting rid of references to what they fought for addressing “corrosive ideology”

McNair matters!

Today I met with an undergrad McNair Scholar looking for a mentor. The way she lit up when asking me questions made my heart sing. McNair means the world to me, and I'm beyond thrilled that I'll be giving the mentorship I received 😊

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I am a professor because the McNair Scholars Program showed me what I was capable of. I will fight with everything I have to make sure others have the same opportunities. McNair matters!

Timely reminder about academic freedom from @aaup.org www.aaup.org/news/academi...

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Related, from Princeton: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

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What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

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My littlest sister is 12. Some boys were targeting her, and her teacher called her 'fast.' As a big sister, as a sociologist, but mostly as a Blackgirlwoman, I am pissed 😤 Calling a little Black girl 'fast,' is so much a part of the unfair adultificaton of Black children

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Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Art by little sis 🥰

After some relative peace, our stalker–who has also threatened my life many times—is back. They are following lots of people who follow me, and I would appreciate it if you block and report them. Shantel has more information and a podcast with background in this thread.

"I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes." ~Sonia Sanchez🌸🌸🌸

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For 14 years, this person has tormented me, close friends and colleagues (many of whom they've never met in person). Dr. Buggs is an incredible human who does not deserve this targeted harassment. Please report and block.